Great Railway Journeys, originally
titled Great Railway Journeys of the
World, is a recurring series of travel
documentaries produced by BBC Television. The premise of each
programme is that the presenter, typically a well-known figure from
the arts or media, would make a journey by train, usually through a
country or to a destination to which they had a personal
connection. There were four series broadcast on BBC Two between 1980 and 1999, with the shorter
series title being used for all but the first. A new series
entitled Great British Railway Journeys started on BBC Two
in January 2010.

Great British Railway
Journeys

In January 2010, a new 20-part series entitled Great British
Railway Journeys started on BBC2, presented by Michael
Portillo, who had previously presented an episode of Great
Railway Journeys.[5][6]

DVD and
books

Although there have been no complete series of Great Railway
Journeys released on DVD,
Michael Palin's 1980 and 1994 programmes are available individually
(BBCDVD1626) and as part of a box set of his collected travel
documentaries, The Michael Palin Collection
(BBCDVD2214).

Books have been published to accompany the first three series,
with a chapter by each of the presenters on their particular
journey: